1960s London
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graham greene
ian McEwan
Love Affair
Melvyn Bragg
northern writers
philip roth
The end of the affair
university
Product details
- ISBN 9780340951231
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 130 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 05 Feb 2009
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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THE FINAL NOVEL IN 'ONE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED LITERARY SERIES IN RECENT TIMES' (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)
'Eclipses anything Bragg has written before'
Daily Mirror
'Utterly absorbing'
Scotsman
'A terrific book'
Daily Mail
'A powerful novel that communicates difficult emotional truths'
The Times
A passionate but ultimately tragic love affair starts when two students - one French, one English - meet at university at the beginning of the sixties. From its tentative early stages, the relationship develops into a life-changing one, whose profound impact continues to reverberate forty years later.
Melvyn Bragg was born in Wigton, Cumbria, in 1939. He went to the local Grammar School and then to Wadham College, Oxford. He joined the BBC in 1961, and published his first novel, For Want of a Nail, in 1965.
He left the BBC and continued to write novels which include The Soldier's Return (WH Smith Literary Award), Without a City Wall (Mail on Sunday John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) and Now Is the Time (Parliamentary Book Award 2016). A Place in England, Son of War and Crossing the Lines were all nominated for the Booker Prize. His non-fiction includes The Adventure of English and The Book of Books, and his first memoir, Back in the Day, was published in 2022 to critical acclaim.
He edited and presented The South Bank Show from 1977 and hosted the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time from 1998. He has now retired from both. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society and of The British Academy. He was given a Peerage in 1998 and a Companion of Honour in 2017.
